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Location

 

Hartland 3

 

Holy Well Name

 

St Clare's Well

 

Map Reference

 

SS258 226 Private land

 

Date Visited

 

Mar-03

 

Perhaps one of the most evocative wells in the area, it now lies rather neglected and overgrown at the side of a busy modern dairy farmyard. A fully grown hawthorn trees sprouts from the top of the  rubble well house and inside the walls and water are stained. On the  inside wall, a small relief carving of a headless lady stands facing the door and the light. This was the site of one the cannon chapels associated with St Nectan's Celtic foundation at nearby Stoke, Hartland Listed in the Devon Sites and Monuments Register but deserves  more.

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